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UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age (www.macrumors.com)
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[+] -12 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

I'm against this for the surveillance and meddling in people's private lives but I'm also for it because a) kids are getting fucked up by the internet and, most of all, b) I like thinking about how MPs are probably oblivious to how burdensome this will be for google and apple to implement and the precedent it would set for every government being able to demand their own set of mods. It's beautiful.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    @oeuf @G4Z I realise it's never going to happen and there would be loads of other fallout I haven't thought about, but I think governments should be allowed to. They can in every other field - our booze laws aren't the same as the US's, why should our dick pic laws be?It might de-monopolise the industry a bit.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Fuck that, I'm an adult paying for internet service.

    I don't ever watch porn on a mobile, but it's not the point. I don't want my internet filtered and it's a pure excuse to track and monitor us all at all times.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    @G4Z yeah in principle I agree but in practice "the internet" is about 4 companies. Until there's more competition your data is being consolidated anyway. And the only way to get competition is to enforce regulation. I don't think this is good regulation but I don't see why we should have to do what Apple want just because they're big.Interestingly this comes at the same time as the smartphone-free childhood thing is gaining steam so there's probably a real-world solution anyway.

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